Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 3

              sections c and f to meet republican receives 50 votes to 30 for roose velt 2 for thomas several are undecided brown and white will seek opinion of living groups next week annual founder's day ex ercises will start at 10:30 in chapel dr e furniss to speak dean c m mcconn will announce prizes hon ors and awards 46 selected after voice trials in drown hall thursday evening to repeat broadczsts section c brown and white consisting of beginning members of the business staff will meet at 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 203 christmas-saucon hall sec tion f will meet at the same time in room 103 e e.'s to try for members scabbard and blade honorary military fraternity will sponsor a smoker for all juniors taking the advanced military course at 7:30 thursday evening at the armory states melvin l jackson eng phys 37 secretary of the frater nity the affair being conducted for the purpose of allowing members of scabbard and blade to meet the men eligible for election to the fra ternity this fall at the last meeting of scabbard and blade r w vogelsburg m.e 37 was elected to represent the lehigh unit at the national scab bard and blade convention which will be held nov 19 20 and 21 at raleigh n c a.i.e.e executive com mittee lays plans and appoints chairmen to select men for honorary dean c m mcconn pi delta epsilon to pledge new members during week of oct 11 1601 students are enrolled curtis reports 221 in arts college 360 in business 1020 in engineering if the faculty of lehigh were to elect the president of the united states this year gov alfred m landon the republican nominee would be their choice polled by the brown and white at the faculty meeting yesterday lehigh's educators cast 50 votes for landon 30 votes for president franklin d roosevelt and 2 voted for norman thomas socialist while the 82 ballots cast repre sent a preponderant majority of faculty members several did not mark their presidential choice giv ing as their reason that they have not yet made up their minds how they will vote while several others were absent from the meeting the final tabulation however shows le high giving the republican candi date a five to three majority over his chief presidential rival significant in the final result was the lack of support for any of the minority candidates with the excep tion of the two ballots cast for thomas both union candidate lemke and communist browder failed to receive a single vote next tuesday all living groups will be polled and the results an nounced in next friday's brown and white students not living in fraternities or the dorms may cast their ballots in this newspaper's lab oratory in the basement of christ mas-saucon hall on wednesday a new course to stress the gen eral aspects of reading and educa tion was approved yesterday at the regular monthly meeting of the faculty in the alumni memorial building enrollment in the course will be voluntary and will at the begin ning be limited to freshmen who are interested in coordinating their reading and discussions in the fields of knowledge outside the limts of their former instruction the henry s haines memorial scholarship was given to william p patterson m e 37 the scholar ship is of the annual value of 200 and is awarded to someone in the mechanical engineering department in accordance with the rules set down for the awarding of univer sity scholarships williams announces appointments president c c williams an nounced the appointment of three men to the lehigh faculty they are c woods instructor in the de partment of english n webster graduate assistant in the department of physics and francis l ehasz part time instructor in the civil en gineering department the first faculty educational club meeting was announced for mon day afternoon in the faculty room of the administration building bradley stoughton dean of the en gineering college will speak on three common years in engin eering in his talk he will discuss the rutgers plan of a unified first three years in all engineering courses the faculty also moved to ap point an advisory council in general education to supervise the new course in reading and education the council will consist of ten fac ulty members appointed by the president and will be aided by a corps of advisers dr s s seyfert will make report fraternity council will sponsor ball to read papers on mech anical rectifier assessment of houses vot ed at meeting registrar g b curtis presented to the faculty the registration fig ures as they existed yesterday there may be some slight change in these figures because of late registra tions results show 583 new men in cluding 61 with advanced standing 2 special students and 520 fresh men 1219 last year's students re turned the total enrollment shows an increase of 11 per cent over last year's figure last year's freshman class numbered 578 the enrollment as to classes is as follows seniors 220 juniors 318 sophomores 447 freshman irregul ars 93 freshmen 520 and special 4 the curricula registration consists of arts 221 business 360 ch e 182 chem 21 c e 32 e e 104 engr 372 e phys 21 i e 112 m e 87 met • 64 e m 24 s e 1 formation of plans for a member ship drive and the appointment of standing committees for the year were discussed at a meeting of the executive committee of the lehigh student branch of the american in stitute of electrical engineers last tuesday theodore r brown e e 37 president appointed john z lin senmeyer e e 37 chairman of the membership and the entertain ment committees s a haverstick e e 37 robert davenport e e 38 e s watts e e 39 r s grubmeyer e e 39 d w coop er e e 39 charles hoffman e.e 38 r j mccurdy e e 39 and john f eagan e e 40 were also appointed to the committee on mem bership brown apointed class representa tives to the executive committee as follows stanley s paist e e 37 robert davenport e e 38 and harold m selser e e 39 john l raff e e 37 was appointed as a member of the publicity com mittee the committee to arrange the programs for the student meetings consists of those men on the exec utive committee other members of this committee are r n weller e e 37 vice chairman john z linsenmeyer treasurer and clay e lewis e e 37 secretary dr j.l beaver professor of elec trical engineering and faculty ad viser to the branch pointed out to the members present the advan tage of being a member of the so ciety for the upper three classes the fee is 2,000 and for the fresh men 1.00 this charge includes the christmas banquet it is the purpose of the organiza tion to bring together the students of electrical engineering to hear men in industry speak on subjects of interest to ijiose in the profes sion o to open observatory sayre observatory will be open to the public at 8 p m tomorrow evening under the auspices of the ernest w brown astronomical society long publicizes process for paints the interfraternity council at its meeting last night in drown hall voted to hold the interfraternity ball feb 6 and to assess each fra ternity 1 for an intramural fund the place and music for the ball will be announced later last year tommy dorsey played for the dance in the coliseum the assessment is levied so that officials may be hired to officate at intramural athletic contests o t lafferty to give paper at fullerton club meeting the fullerton club philosophical organization of which f c becker assistant professor of philosophy is president will hold its first meet ing of the year at the deanery bryn mawr at 8 p m on saturday at this initial meeting t t laf ferty assistant professor of educa tion will read a paper on the so cial nature of universals o mrs collins to speak mrs carter collins wife of the assistant professor of military sci ence and tactics will speak on broadening horizens for women at the meeting of the american as sociation of university women at 8 p m tonight in the hotel beth lehem mrs collins has presented many lectures and radio addresses on various phases of financial problems seniors to call mccaa all seniors are urged to call the mccaa studio 738 today to make an appointment for photographs in the senior section of the epitome states donald barnum i e 37 editor pi delta epsilon honorary pub lications fraternity will pledge new members sometime during the week of oct 11 edwin g mcnair jr president of the lehigh chapter an nounced today the editors and business manag ers of all student publications are eligible but must submit applica tions to mcnair at the delta tau delta house before noon saturday other students who have held of fice on publications must submit a list of the offices which they have held along with the number of points set by the following sched ule to mcnair before noon satur day the point list follows brown and white editorial manager 6 news manager 6 financial manager 4 circulation manager 4 editorial council 2 makeup editor 2 news editor 2 sports editor 2 copy superviser 2 national assistant 1 local assistant 1 competition i 1 assistant news editor 1 assistant sports editor 1 board 1 review managing editor 6 advertising manager 4 circulation manager 4 editorial board 4 business board 1 competition 1 epitome senior section editor 6 advertising manager 4 circulation manager 4 junior editors 4 senior section 2 assistant business manager 2 competition 1 handbook business board 4 competition 1 janitor speaks dr f a bradford forty-six men have been selected for the glee club following tryouts thursday evening in drown hall in addition five others were grant ed retrials said hal e towne arts 37 president of the club eighty students tried out for the first time in the club's history the membership will ex ceed 70 it is expected that about 25 singers of last year will return the first rehearsal has been called for 7:30 thursday evening in drown hall while no definite arrangements for concerts this season have been completed towne hopes to con tinue the radio broadcasts begun last year it was then that lehigh went on the air over the three na tional chains in a series of concerts from philadelphia new york bal timore and newark besides these two home concerts and dances were given and the double quartet sang at alumni meetings and in balti more shields will direct dr t edgar shields will begin his 16th season as director of the club assistant managers are george grow arts 38 and carstens y haas ch e 38 accompanist the following men are new mem bers ist tenors c j layman eng 39 j c loesel 40 louis trum bore 40 and h m randel 40 second tenors frank norton eng 39 e m mahla 40 c uhl 40 e b caller eng 39 f s filli pone eng 39 f b ralston eng 39 s p felix jr arts 38 j l burgher 40 a b orvine 40 j r steeg 40 j wendel 40 and j w hartzell arts 39 first basses m m simons ch e 38 p h bartholomew eng 39 j t bergen ch e 37 c l un rath i e 38 e e edwards 40 w f o'neill bus 38 h leidlich 40 w s russell 40 c a tra geser 40 r clark arts 39 w a upton 40 p k nicholas bus 39 f a flory eng 39 d e smith 40 d k swartout,'4o a h bren nersholtz 40 c a eddy 40 carl richardson 40 s steams 40 g e lowe 40 h b mccormac 40 and r b march 40 2nd basses r w hubschmitt eng 39 e j varga arts 39 q keith 40 e billstein 40 g h heintzelman 40 j n critchlow 40 e d os bourne 40 and c w petsche 40 w b todd 40 p w teiler,'4o r e brown 40 j a manley ch e 38 and f l benedict 40 will be given a second tryout thursday evening they are to report at 7:15 says towne any other students interested in joining the club may have their voices tested and classified at that time towne also offers to grant a second trial to any men who were not accepted last week and who feel they could do better thursday at the same time dr shields will hear any students who wish to com pete for assistant accompanist developed method for de voe and reynolds charlie wasser tells what's what scouts discuss outdoor fireplace dr sanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering will make a report on the summer convention of the american insti tute of electrical engineers at the first meeting of the institute for the 1936-37 season which will be held at 8 p m on friday oct 9 at the neff hotel in seinburg the convention was held in pasa dena cal dr seyfert attended as the delegate from this section and presented a paper on a synchron ous-mechanical rectifier-inverter he will also describe his trip through the west w w lewis of the general electric company will discuss methods of suppressing faults on power systems at the meeting he will compare the uses of ground wires expulsion protective gaps and petersen coils in power sys tems placing emphasis upon their theory rating and relative cost alpha phi omega officers meet in drown hall t brown chosen eta kappa nu meets to elect officers a new process in the field of paint chemistry has recently been made public for the first time by dr j s long research technician and former professor of inorganic chemistry here ac the result of experiments dr long has developed in the labora tories of devoe and reynolds paint company a method of processing oils which enter into the manufac ture of ordinary house paints long claims that this method checks the tendency of paint to crack peel and fade public announcement of the new process was withheld until compre hensive tests proved its merit rooms in williams hall are remodeled repainted eta kappa nu honorary electri cal engineering society held a meeting last night to make plans for fall activities and for the elec tion of officers john z linsenmeyer e e 37 was elected to the office of treas urer to succeed d l healy e e 36 t r brown was appointed act ing recording secretary small details were taken care of in preparation for the engineers ball which is to be held oct 17 pamphlets will be distributed among sophomore electrical engin eers to acquaint them with eta kappa nu and to increase their as pirations of making it it was an nounced frank knox republican vice-pres idential candidate on which he served as assistant to dr neil car others dean of the college of bus iness administration who was eco nomic advisor to colonel knox dr carothers will return oct 15 charlie wasser is a republican before the lehigh discussion forum called to order its first meet ing of the year friday evening in packard laboratory charlie told the assembled members of the club just that in his official capacity as packard laboratory janitor charlie opened the meeting room sat down on the speaker's table and delivered a stirring if partisan address lookit those w.p.a shovel leaners on the highways is that government wasser asked wasteful and extravagant spend ing i call it but you boys'll pay for it if roosevelt gets back in again an what's more charlie con tinued i'll be down at the station to see you off when roosevelt sends you boys to war like when i went in 1917 after the wasser address the meeting was called to order and officers elected carl palmer arts 38 was named president and louis c stoumen arts 38 secretary a committee was named to consider a proposed mock trial of william randolph hearst as un-ameri can at an officers meeting of the alpha phi omega honorary eagle scout society held at 7:30 p m yes terday in drown hall the topic of discussion was a proposed outdoor fireplace in sayre park president r p sturgis m e.'3b announced that the first regular meeting of the society will be held at 7:30 p m oct 14 in drown hall the permission of president c c williams to construct a fireplace near the lookout is being sought the superintendent of buildings and grounds a w litzenberger has given his oonsent for the construc tion of the project sturgis asked that all upperclass men desiring to join the society sub mit their names to the union office before 6 p m oct 14 freshmen will not be admitted until next feb ruary final tabulations of the recent scouting survey will not be avail able for several weeks sturgis an nounced several rooms have been remod eled and others are in the process of being remodeled in williams hall room 218 has been repainted and the seating arrangement has been rearranged to allow closer contact with the instructor the media incubation room 208 will be moved to a larger lecture room 216 in order to facilitate making cultures and aid in the anal ysis of water from the taylor gym nasium pool new equipment is to be installed twenty degrees in courses will be awarded at the annual founder's day exercises at 10:30 tomorrow morning in packer memorial chapel dr edgar stephenson furniss dean of the graduate school of yale university will deliver an address on the university in an un friendly world following an organ prelude by dr t edgar shields director of music the academic procession will procede to the chapel from the alumni memorial building while the university band will play a march by boellman a hymn o god our help in ages past will be followed by a prayer offered by dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy dr shields will play an organ solo romance by arensky-kraft following the address by dr furniss president c c williams will confer the degrees dean c m mcconn will announce the annual awards and prizes and honors the exercises in the chapel will be clos ed by the benediction and organ postlude the academic procession will march to the flag pole where the singing of the alma mater led by the university band will close the founder's day exercises master of arts major in english marianne gladys witmeyer b.a moravian college for women bethlehem major in history and political science achilles nicholas sakellarides b a national school of languages comemrce and finance constanti nople turkey bethlehem master of science major in electrical engineering frederic philip fischer b s in e e rutgers university milford bachelor of arts john walton coburn philadel phia george ethelbert condit le raysville robert farnham jr philadelphia bachelor of arts frederick john snyder jr min eola n v herbert allen wat kins wilkes-barre bachelor of science in business administration frank garrettson smith mont clair n j bachelor of science in chemical engineering edwin clifford heath bethle hem rolf lindenhayn jr ridge wood n j benjamin wesco win ship jr orchard park n y bachelor of science in chemistry louis edgar lannan jr mc keesport bachelor of science in civil engineering john food fugard jr evanston 111 bachelor of science in electrical engineering martin joseph hildenberger jr bethlehem bachelor of science in engineering physics donald cooper culver laurel del bachelor of science in industrial engineering john harner kress manheim bachelor of science in mechanical engineering edward dewitt depuy brook lyn n y bachelor of science in metallurgical engineering elwood melcher taussig jr philadelphia bachelor of science in mining engineering david griffith samuels jr beth lehem brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 6 1936 landon is chosen in faculty poll vol xliv no 3 military honorary to give smoker will award prizes price — five cents new singers join glee club after tryouts juniors taking advanced m s and t to attend candidates to get degrees tomorrow new course will encourage frosh reading faculty approves adding voluntary reading and education course h aiiies prize awarded returns from tour with col member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first